Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Judgment

I should have been doing homework, but I did this instead. It's been waaaaay too long since I had time to just play with art that wasn't related to school. I'd gotten an idea in my head after watching the recent Lost episode "Dead Is Dead" and had scribbled out some thumbnail sketches in my notebook during class in the evening. This week off from school seemed like the perfect opportunity to do some art for fun, and I had some digital painting techniques I wanted to mess around with, so Ben got to be my test subject.

This originally started out as a dark brown and white colored pencil drawing on gray Canson paper and gradually morphed into this as I started painting it in Photoshop. The textures used in this digital painting are a combination of ones I made on my own (by painting and scanning ink washes on watercolor paper) and textures from CG Textures. The final picture measures 9" x 12".

About Me

Welcome to my sketch blog! Here you can find sketches, paintings, various artistic output, and things I find inspiring. I'm a full-time high school art teacher as well as a freelance artist. I don't have a set posting schedule - posting tends to be more sporadic when school is in session, more frequent when it's not.

There's a pretty good mix of things posted here, from my own personal art, projects for my students, random DIY crafts, and more, so enjoy! Thanks for stopping by!